And, on Twitter, you can follow the ongoing debate through the #flotilla hashtag.

To all of which there is not much to add. It's impossible even to offer a solution when 60 years of US-supported rejectionism have made Israel invulnerable to both international law and world opinion. Israel is most useful to the US when embattled and fearful of destruction at the hands of the Arabs, and that is not likely to change any time soon.

On the question of how the impossible horror of the Palestinian (and especially Gazan) people may be ended, I have no answers. I can only hope that someone does.